Carpet Plus Cork Recycling Yields Tile Flooring

Charlottesville, VA, Sept. 2, 2014 --  Carpet Plus said its Re-Cork C’Ville program has collected over 1.1 million cork stoppers from its 60+ participating locations in the Charlottesville area.

The company said it has partnered with Yemm & Hart, a Missouri-based company that is fully committed to making cork products from 100% post-consumer material.

Yemm & Hart recycles used wine cork stoppers into tile using a combination of whole cork stoppers and granulated cork. The result is a tile with visible profiles of whole wine cork stoppers that can be used for flooring, wall covering and other applications.

On July 19, Carpet Plus shipped off more than 700,000 used wine stoppers to be recycled into cork tiles.

Carpet Plus said it will soon be selling Yemm & Hart’s cork tile flooring.

“We are excited about the idea that we are selling flooring that could potentially contain corks from our own recycling program,” says Duane Cassis, owner of Carpet Plus.